mqttwarn: Don’t want to run Node-RED but do want to route MQTT messages around? Jan-Piet Mens may have the application for you in the Python based mqttwarn, a pluggable framework which can subscribe to many MQTT topics and send them on to files, other MQTT systems, Twitter, SMTP, Redis, SQLite and Mac OS X notifications. He explains that the instigator for this was being introduced to Pushover, an iOS and Android notification app… which is now also supported by mqttwarn.

Docker image: The Phusion developers have launched baseimage-docker, a modified Ubunutu 12.04 LTS image which addresses problems they see when using Docker as more of a container for long running processes and systems – the correctness of that position is up for debate though. The mods include a corrected init, fixed apt issues, and running syslog-ng, cron and an ssh server and also includes “runit” to replace Upstart and a “setuser” command all in a 6MB of memory footprint.

SPARC in QEMU in Ship: Old, but gold, a short article on how a group of engineers replaced an old SPARCstation-5-like VME form factor system with a QEMU emulation of the hardware to keep a 3000 ton ship navigating.